Mason & Dixon
€ 19,75
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9780099771913 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Thomas Pynchon |
| Editora | Vintage Publishing |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 784 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,566 |
| Data de Publicação | 02/04/1998 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 18,63 |
| Imposto | € 1,12 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 19,75 |
| Disponibilidade | 15 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, in an updated eighteenth-century novel featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political and major caffeine abuse.
We follow the mismatch''d pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic - from their first journey together to the Cape of Good Hope, to pre-Revoluntionary America and back, through the stange yet redemptive turns of fortune in their later lives, on a grand tour of the Enlightenment''s dark hemisphere, as they observe and participate in the many opportunities for insanity presented them by the Age of Reason.